Tag Archive for Web 2.0

Socialseek - An Easy Way To Stay On Top Of All Social Goodness

Now it’s fun, simple and easy to stay on top of all the social goodness happening online. Press, blogs, tweets, videos, pics, and events on any topic, in your city or anywhere. See what’s making noise - hot topics, stars, favorite team, even your brand - all in real-time and stay in the scene with Socialseek!

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Sensidea has rolled out a new very innovative social media monitor that lets you track all the social goodness for free called SocialSeek. With a very good coverage of its launch at Techcrunch, has seen incredible response with a 700+ download on the first day. What a great way to start!!

SocialSeek is a desktop application that runs on Adobe Air. You can search for a topic, item, brand or company across news sites, blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and events. You can also track mentions of a particular search query by city and receive charts that show trends on popularity of a topic across websites, or Twitter.

It’s a boon for the social marketing gurus.
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10 Strengths of SocialSeek’s are
1. Seek Blogs, Tweets, Videos, Images, and Events!
2. Add any site you want to track, no problem!
3. Real-time automatic updates and notifications!
4. Track all the chatter by city or anywhere
5. Find something interesting? One click away! So simple but so powerful…
6. Compare topics to see what’s making more noise
7. Quick charts to see trends and track what’s hot
8. Export results to CSV & PDF
9. Brands! Track yourself against the competition!
10. Windows & Mac Compatible!

Competitors to Socialseek include Viralheat and Peoplebrowsr, which both help marketers track the buzz around a certain individual or brand on social media sites and web sites.

Explore social networking sites with Flock Social Web Browser

Flock 2.5 is a Free and Open Source, Web Browser specially built for browsing Social Networking sites such as Twitter, Blogger, Facebook, MySpace and many more. Advantage is that it beautifully combines traditional browser features along with focus on social networking and web 2.0 features. Flock is an award winning browser that is available for Windows, Linux as well as Mac OS. It is based on Mozilla Firefox Codebase and quite stable and usable as Firefox :). Needless to say, with an estimated $30 million funding, Flock is becoming a prominent browser player quietly and steadily.

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Flock 2.5 integrates social networking and media services including MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, etc Notably, when logging into any of the supported social services, Flock can track updates from friends: profiles, uploaded photos, and more. Flock’s latest 2.5 version added Twitter Search functionality, multi-casting of status updates to multiple services, and the introduction of instant messaging via Facebook Chat in the browser.

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Accessing your mails is so easy, Just select your email provider, Gmail, Yahoo mail or AOL mail (as of now) and enter the username and password. That’s it. You sift through your emails easily.

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Flock is also a very capable RSS aggregator with category support.

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Flock supports 3rd party add-ons, here is a Winamp add-on toolbar on Flock!

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All in all, Flock 2.5 is a capable Browser with extra focus on Social networking, RSS, emails, chatting etc via unified user interface that eases your life without having to juggle between multiple applications.

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5 ways to Twitter directly from your Desktop!

Twitter is sort of a phenomenon now. Due to its popularity and users, there are so many Desktop clients, plug-ins and so on for Twitter. If you are looking for Tweeting directly via a desktop client and then the options are plenty. But here is a list of 5 Twitter desktop clients that are highly popular because of their features and support…

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1. TweetDeck

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TweetDeck is very good, lets you manage your ever-increasing list of friends list on Twitter, allows you to group and more.

  • Tweet directly from TweetDeck and share photos or web links
  • Manage conversations with @replies and direct messages
  • Create Groups to easily follow friends, colleagues or other interest groups
  • Keep a finger on the pulse with Twitscoop and local trends.
  • Follow topics in real-time with saved searches
  • Update Facebook and view your friends’ status updates
  • Preview short URLs from the comfort of TweetDeck
  • Manage multiple Twitter accounts easily

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2. Twhirl

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Twhirl is Adobe AIR based desktop client for Twitter and is top of the line. Unfortunately it doesn’t support Linux! Plenty of features…

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3. Tweetie

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Tweetie is an exclusive client for Mac OS. It is so simple and intuitive that you would think that it is an official Apple product! Supports conversation, searching, bookmarking and more.

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4. TwitterFox

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TwitterFox is a FireFox add-in for Twitter. If you are a FireFox addict (who isn’t?) then this add-in will come in handy. It supports lot of features and a must try.

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5. Choqok

A Free/Open Source micro-blogging client for K Desktop Environment. The name comes from an ancient Persian word, means Sparrow! Currently supports Twitter.com and Identi.ca services. Good features like Twitpic.com, KWallet, KNotification, Libnotify etc integrations…

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Ten Services – For Easy Shopping And Selling At eBay

Ever wished you had a better service that allows people and businesses easily buy or sell their goods and services via eBay? The web 2.0 has made things easier by providing easy to use services for the most popular web 2.0 online shopping and auctioning website – eBay. Here are ten such services that lets buyers and sellers to connect with eBay auctions and make their shopping and selling experience easy.

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1. GetItNext

GetItNext is a Canadian based company offering free and easy to use search solution that helps users navigate searching for items on eBay. A bunch of eBay junkies spent countless hours buying and selling on eBay, grew frustrated with the eBay UI and developed the GetItNext to easily search and find what you want on eBay.

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2. Visual eBay

Visual eBay provides a little visual glimpse into the world of eBay auctions. This mashup pinpoints the exact locations where auctions are taking place. One can search for a keyword under a category and choose the country ( U.S., Canada, Australia or England) and Visual eBay will pinpoint to the locations on a Google Map where auctions are taking place.

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3. Bidflyer

BirdFlyer is another eBay visual search website that takes eBay auction listings and presents them on a cool visual interface. It is a Flash actionscript search tool based on the eBay developer API. When you perform a search results are shown as small thumbnail images with prices, sorted by auction end times. You can also search by category, make bids, track auctions with real time countdowns. Hovering over a particular item brings up the item’s title and clicking on it will pop other information like countdown clock, number of bid and its current price.

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4. PicClick

PicClick is another amazing site that aims at improving the way you san and view search results in eBay and Amazon. You can type in the search phrase along with the preferred price range and all the results gets displayed in one page like a photo gallery. You can sort the results by various options like start or end time or by highest or lowest price etc.

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5. AuctionMapper

AuctionMapper is designed to help you find exactly what you want in the shortest amount of time. AuctionMapper is a deluxe search tool that allows you to quickly filter your searches down precisely to what you are looking for. The filtered searches are then presented either in a list view or on a map depending on how you choose to view the results. Unlike a typical advanced search where you have to keep going back and forth between advanced search page and the results page to tweek various constraints, AuctionMapper stays on one page while only the results change, making adjustments to the constraints painless.

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6. Shopping & Discovery

Shopping & Discovery is a beta site that lets users browse through eBay auctions and Amazon products in a fun and visual way. This goes beyond typing in a keyword and having to browse through a long list of results. Results are automatically organized by relevance to the query and customizable with our “more like this” function. As the results change, so do the categories, auctions, and products ready to be explored.

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7. AuctionPixie

AuctionPixie is a small, but amazing suite of free eBay tools which helps both the buyer and seller on eBay with their daily activities, whether it’s leaving automatic feedback, finding a bargain using misspelled item finder, or simply helping to cross-promote their items using AuctionPixie’s free scrolling galleries.

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8. UnWired

UnWired Buyer 2.0 is an interactive service that allows eBay buyers and sellers to connect with eBay auctions in the critical final minutes from any mobile phone or PC. eBay shoppers are now able to determine how they want to be notified about an ending auction (email, phone call, or both) and where they want to place their bids (PC or mobile phone). UnWired Buyer provides an innovative voice-based commerce platform that delivers real-time, actionable notifications directly into the consumer’s hands anytime, anywhere. UnWired Buyer is able to extend commerce to US based mobile phones, enabling event-triggered transactions via voice.

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9. Automatic

Auctomatic is a tool for managing your eBay business. Use Auctomatic to track your inventory, pictures, and auction templates, and track the traffic on your auctions so you can optimize your listing strategy. The Auctomatic mission is making selling online easy. Auctomatic does more than just let you list your items and manage your sales - it teaches how you can maximize your profits and to increase the success of your business.

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10. Auction Search Kit

Auction Search Kit provides you with the resources for visualizing the location of any eBay item that interests you. The kit itself also features a wealth of tools that can easily be put to good use. These include a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that will enable you to add map buttons to eBay and a set of search plugins that can be used both with Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.

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Is Web 2.0 Game Over?

Well, Who does not remember the famous Original Web 2.0 company logo cloud featuring a lot of interesting companies with interesting services.

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Image Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/93136022/

So, what happened to these companies after like 3-4 years? Here is an interesting story by Meg Pickard. She has compiled an updated collage where dead companies are marked with red X mark and successfully bought over companies as green circles. These companies were tracked via websites like TechCrunch, if the official website is dead so is the company :-)

Here it is; the updated Web 2.0 Logo chart for Year 2009 (yeah there are many but these are major)

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There are too many red X marks right? So, Are you thinking that Web 2.0 era is soon going to be gone? Well, We do not think so. If you see, the red marks VS green circles, the success rate seems to be quite high! Also, failure rate will always be higher than the successful ones.

Now, It would be interesting how the Web 2.0 trend slowly transforms into Web 3.0. Well, No one quite understands how a real Web 3.0 service would look like but lot of speculations are already on. Let us wait and see how things shape.

A big thanks to Meg Pickard for her effort in tracking these companies!

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